For more than two decades, Orlando Capote has held his ground against one of the largest commercial development projects in Florida’s Coral Gables. Today, his modest Mediterranean-style home sits amid office buildings, parking garages and a 14-storey hotel, where an open neighbourhood once stood. According to NPR, the transformation of the neighbourhood has left his house in near-permanent shadow for most of the year, with trees struggling to survive and even the family’s longtime mango tree no longer bearing fruit. What began as a refusal to sell his parents’ home has made Capote the lone holdout against Coral Gables’ biggest development.
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